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Differential Flatness of Quadrotor Dynamics Subject to Rotor Drag for Accurate Tracking of High-Speed Trajectories

Faessler, M.
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Franchi, A.
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Scaramuzza, Davide  
2018
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters

In this letter, we prove that the dynamical model of a quadrotor subject to linear rotor drag effects is differentially flat in its position and heading. We use this property to compute feedforward control terms directly from a reference trajectory to be tracked. The obtained feedforward terms are then used in a cascaded, nonlinear feedback control law that enables accurate agile flight with quadrotors. Compared to the state-of-the-art control methods, which treat the rotor drag as an unknown disturbance, our method reduces the trajectory tracking error significantly. Finally, we present a method based on a gradient-free optimization to identify the rotor drag coefficients, which are required to compute the feedforward control terms. The new theoretical results are thoroughly validated trough extensive comparative experiments.

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DOI
10.1109/LRA.2017.2776353
Author(s)
Faessler, M.
Franchi, A.
Scaramuzza, Davide  
Date Issued

2018

Published in
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters
Volume

3

Issue

2

Start page

620

End page

626

Editorial or Peer reviewed

REVIEWED

Written at

OTHER

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NCCR-ROBOTICS  
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March 14, 2018
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https://infoscience.epfl.ch/handle/20.500.14299/145560
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